Shota Koyama

Biography

Shota Koyama (小山 正太, Koyama Shōta, born July 17, 1987) is a Japanese screenwriter from Tokyo. He graduated from the Nihon University Film School. He belongs to Sacca. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as a part-timer at a sports newspaper company. At the same time, he was in charge of editorial production as a writer for Weekly SPA, Weekly Playboy and Men's Knuckle. In 2013, he was the first person to win both the grand prize and honorable mention at the Fuji Television Young Scenario Award, which has produced the likes of Yuji Sakamoto and Shinji Nojima. He debuted as a screenwriter with the award-winning work Jinsei Gokko.